"Sizzle... Sizzle..."

The thermal insulation around the Progress not only prevents high temperatures, but also has some side effects, such as sound insulation.

Therefore, although Zhou Rui can feel the higher and higher overload, the only sound that can be heard is the sound of the life-sustaining system ventilating in the spacesuit.

After more than 8 months of scientific training, Zhou Rui's state of mind has been able to maintain the same stability as his age.

He even moved slightly closer to the right, making his arm touch with the trembling bulkhead, feeling the pulse of the rocket engine's jet fuel.

He knew that the turbopump power of each engine under him was hundreds of thousands of horses, and the rocket engine was the most primitive and violent beauty.

The portholes of the Progress are like windows that have been battered by a storm at night, constantly producing a regular and clear tremor.

As time slowly passed, Zhou Rui felt that the scenery outside the porthole had been divided, with an almost blackened dark blue in front and a soft white light in the rear.

When the dark blue gradient blackened the area near the expulsion of white light, the vibrations that lasted almost eternity came to an abrupt halt, like the absolute silence of a late summer night when the music stopped.

Zhou Rui's brain was also empty, and the scene in front of him changed in the whirlwind.

He remembered his childhood standing under the eaves of the house, wearing a corduroy jacket, watching the raindrops hit the mossy stone hills.

I remembered that I was put on a scalper by my grandfather and led to the field.

I remembered the night when I was polishing parts burrs in the factory, and I heard that the college entrance examination was resumed; I remembered the first year of teaching in school, and I saw the newspaper saying that the space shuttle Columbia was launched; Thinking of the news in 1992, China wanted to engage in its own manned spaceflight; I remembered that I joined the satellite project, and adjusted the parameters day and night.

Zhou Rui once thought that being rated as a professor by himself from a peasant family was already the highest degree in his life, but now, he will reach the highest in the physical sense.

"One level of shutdown, one level of separation."

"Level 2 ignition!"

The command from the headset woke Zhou Rui up from his memory, and there was a slight thrust on his back again, but it was almost negligible compared to when he took off.

This time, he was finally able to turn his head sharply to look out the window, only to see that the first stage of Xinyuan-2's detachment was already at a perpendicular angle to them, rapidly shrinking until it merged with the atmosphere.

The blue earth is like the creator in the movie, and the flowing air clouds on the surface emit a milky white light, like a beautiful sapphire in the dark space.

"Progress, this is the ground center, please report on the current status of your crew."

"I'm 01, I'm in good shape, done!"

"02 in good condition" "03 in good condition"

When communication with the ground was restored again, the three finally felt that they had reconnected with the earth, and that they no longer felt like they were wandering outside the world.

Deng Lei first greedily recorded the appearance of the earth in his heart through the porthole, and then reluctantly turned his head to look at the two "load" experts.

"02, how do you feel?"

Zhao Xiaowen also withdrew his gaze from the window and gave two thumbs up:

"Great! Professor Zhou, what about your poems? It's about time. ”

Only then did Zhou Rui remember the agreement they had made before they went to heaven, to recite the verses that fit the space travel in the way of solitaire, and after a little thought, he said:

"Pian Pian,

Year after year;

Flying dreams through the ages,

When to go on nine days. ”

"Good!"

Deng Lei looked at the starry sky in front of him and applauded loudly in the headset.

Zhao Xiaowen also praised it, and then it was difficult, starting with "day", which is not easy to find.

"Xiao Zhao, hurry up!"

"It's just, 02, you can't break your word."

The latter sentence came from Lin Ju, who heard the conversation between the three of them clearly on the ground, and also felt joy as they rushed out of the atmosphere.

Sent three humans into space, which has surpassed 99% of the world's countries.

Still on the accelerating Progress-second stage rocket, Zhao Xiaowen held back for a long time, and finally thought of a sentence, and read it out directly:

"God... All things are born to support people, and people have nothing to repay the sky. ”

The headset in the passenger compartment fell silent.

The center of the ground fell silent.

After a while, the commander Deng Lei reluctantly said: "I also thought about it: the night of the heavenly steps is as cold as water, sit and watch the morning glory Vega." ”

"Good! Good! The commander is literate. ”

Zhou Rui wanted to ignore Xiao Zhao with loud praise, and then all this was in the live broadcast screen.

Lin Ju covered his face and didn't dare to read the comments.

"Level 2 shutdown, machine and arrow separation!"

In the 550th second, the second-stage engine stopped working and separated, and the Progress, with its three crews, entered a low-earth orbit with an inclination of 51 degrees and an altitude of 390 kilometers above the ground, and circled the earth in about 90 minutes.

The trio will orbit the Earth 48 times at more than 20 times the speed of sound, fly for about 72 hours and do some scientific experiments, including physics, biology and other aspects, only one of which needs to be scientifically operated, and then return to Earth with the results and 50 kilograms of radiation mutated seeds.

In order to save valuable time, the commander Deng Lei unfastened the seat belt and fixed the helmet on the shelf above.

Carefully pushed on the armrest of the chair, and the whole person slowly floated towards Zhao Xiaowen.

"Treasure your time, great scientists, you don't have as much time to enjoy space as I do!"

……

"Huaguo's private space company can send people into space one year after its establishment, why is it that specaX has been established for 13 years and the Dragon spacecraft has been launched for five years, and we are still not allowed to carry out manned missions?"

On the little blue bird, Ma Yilong let out a roar of unequal treatment, accompanied by a spoof photo of his face distorted by anger.

specaX is indeed sour, or rather, the old horse was forced to convert to lemon essence.

Although NACA has long supported the Dragon spacecraft to replace Lucia's Soyuz spacecraft, ISS has always been extremely wary of manned spacecraft in private spaceflight, and until the retirement of the first-generation Dragon spacecraft, it was only allowed to carry out some cargo missions.

On the other hand, Xinyuan Aerospace dared to send three astronauts at one time after two unmanned test launches, and only one of them was considered professional, what does this mean? Does this mean that NACA's support for private space is not as good as that of China?

When the trio of Deng Zhouzhao happily switched pens in space, many foreign media were broadcasting, so it caused a great response.

After all, this is the world's first operation carried out by a private space company to send a person into low-earth orbit, which is more powerful than an empty fork!

Countries such as Aramco and Lucia did not react much to this, after all, their countries have sent astronauts into space, at most a few Aramco's private space companies have been ridiculed, and Ma Yilong has suffered the most critical blows.

But among a group of younger brothers around Huaguo, it really smelled sour across the sea.

The JAXA Island Aerospace Exploration Agency reacted the most, because at this time, their H2A rocket was about the same as the strongest rocket in service in China, the Long March-2F, and they had always regarded themselves as equal opponents, and even a little proud of their own hydrogen and oxygen rocket engines that were ahead in some parameters.

As a result, Xinyuan-2 suddenly appeared, instantly compared H2A, and was able to fly manned with the space shuttle, which is a PPT drawn by JAXA and NACA for many years!

On the day of the trio's successful launch, some people from the island country gathered outside the JAXA office to protest fiercely, forcing the JAXA board of directors to come out together to "red bean paste private Marseille".

Moreover, the voice of the parliament has also changed, and the pro-China faction has begun to advocate space cooperation with China, and a new round of war of words has begun......

The other is the stick, at this time, the Goryeo stick is almost extremely proud after the extreme inferiority, and they brush the dog barking on the YouTube pipe in batches to belittle Huaguo Aerospace, which has become a unique scenery.

Uncle...... Abel frantically sent a bunch of imaginary drawings of his future space station, after all, Unity and Progress were produced, and the next one was their Mecca.

The people of Allah will ride their own flying carpet and look down on the earth from space!

……

The noise on the ground affects space less than 390 kilometers away, and the last words people heard after Progress went into orbit were said by Zhao Xiaowen:

"There's so much fuel left, why don't you catch up with the ISS and have a look? They seem to be in a 400KM track. ”

Ground: "......"

The live broadcast will be temporarily ended, and it will be broadcast live for 2 hours a day for the next three days, mainly for some small experiments and Zhou Rui's live lectures to the whole country.

When the Southern Institute of Mechanical Engineering contacted the sky, it kept hinting that the two of them should promote their school more, and this time they sent two teachers, but they ruthlessly increased their prestige again.

Then Lin Ju received a list of physical examinations provided by several cooperative universities, which listed all the teachers and professors who were young and strong or had great academic attainments, hoping to enter the Xinyuan reserve astronaut sequence.

The colleagues who knew an old man and a young man on the ground beat their chests, thinking that they could also go to space, and those two people were really nameless and unreal, and they really didn't know where the shit luck came from.

Of course, Lin Ju did not refuse these people, didn't he just send people to heaven, and it would be less than 200 million at a time, so what was the big deal about sending them to see the world?

You know, he's planning to send all the best engineers...... Even yourself.

Now it is still a little expensive to use Xinyuan 2, LEO capacity of 45 tons, far exceeding the requirements of H1 launch mass of 21 tons, the hydrogen and oxygen mechanism of the second stage causes the cost and fuel to be too expensive, and the supporting transportation, measurement and control, and final assembly consume a lot of man-hours, and it is a large expense

Waiting for the kerosene machine Xinyuan 5 to come out, LEO is just 22 tons, used to launch H1 is not as wasteful as Xinyuan 2, a launch cost is estimated to be only 25 million, and the price of each recycling and maintenance of H1 is less than 50 million, and the average cost of sending one person is less than 9 million yuan.

That's less than $1.5 million, not to mention engineers, even the dogs of the security department can earn a seat and go up for two laps!